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By Kathleen Szmii Manwaring
kmanwaring@barnstabl8patriot.com
In
my next life, I want
to be a baseball player.
I want to know what
it's like to stand on that
pitcher's mound and stare
icily into the eyes of my
opponent. I want to feel
the ball smack into my
glove as I catch a long pop
fly. I want to watch with
a grin as the crowd belts
out "Take Me Out to the
Ballgame" off-key during a
seventh inning stretch.
Of all the sports, there
is none so magical as
baseball. The others are
great but they simply don't
compare. Whether it's a
Little League game on a
warm summer's evening or
a Major League game be-
neath the lights at Fenway,
there isjust nothing like
baseball.
It's no secret that base-
ball is my favorite sport.
Ironically, I've never really
played. My affection for
baseball is that of a lifelong
fan, although I didn't realize
it fully until I was an adult.
As a child I was blessed
to be able to spend my
summer days splashing
in the waters of Spofford
Lake, N.H. My family had
a membership to a little
beach club on the lake
and many of my summer
memories occurred there.
Mom would pack us
up mid-morning for our
daily trip. It was a glorious
way to spend a summer.
We swam and fished and
delighted in the carefree
nature of the season.
Dad joined us each eve-
ning after work for another
cookout and we'd while
away the hours until the
sun had long set.
With our bodies browned
by the sun and our eyes
fuzzy with sleep my brother
and I would each pick a
parent to ride home with.
Although we loved each
parent immensely, it was
inevitable that Andy would
go with Mom and I would
go with Dad.
I liked riding with Dad
because it was a special
time for us. It was also
baseball time. As I curled
up on his knee on the long
front seat, he'd fiddle with
the radio dial until he
found the Sox game.
On those summer nights
the sound of the game was
my lullaby. I'd listen to the
play-by-play as I drifted off
to sleep on my father's lap.
To this day the sound of
radio baseball brings back
that feeling of childhood
comfort. Now, though,
baseball has become more
to me.
Since my childhood I
have had the opportunity
to delve further into this
American pastime, and
what I have discovered
makes me love it that
much more.
Unlike other sports,
baseball has the power to
unify a neighborhood or a
nation. What a welcome
sight it was to see the
World Series on television
in the weeks following 9/11.
It didn't matter who was
playing, just that there
were games to watch. It
was a powerful message
to all that life in America
would continue on, per-
haps stronger than ever.
Of course, who will ever
forget The Curse, The
Babe, The Kid, Billy Buck-
ner, Pudge Fisk, Manny
being Manny, The Big Papi,
Johnny Damon's hair, and
The Curse Reversed?
I was part of it - watch-
ing the game on television,
phone in hand. As Keith
Foulke tossed the last out
to Doug Mientkiewicz I was
already dialing Dad's num-
ber. At 11:40 we whooped
it up together, the victory
of our beloved team. In my
heart it was summer all
over again.
Take me out
to the ballgame
Girls ousted from
tourney; duo to
compete in States
By Kathleen Szmit Manwaring
kmanwaring@barnstablepatriot.com
KATHLEEN SZMIT MANWARING PHOTOS
ONE FOR ALL - In a tremendous season, the BHS girls tennis team
presented a unified front as they netted 21 wins and only one loss
during the Division ISouth Sectionals.
Quite often in tennis the
end results can be mixed.
Such was the case with the
BHS girls' tennis team on
Sunday. The team fell to
Needham in the Division I
South Sectionals, but still
has aduo headed to the State
Championships.
In a game that took 2 hours
and 38 minutes to complete ,
Jess Whelan played superbly
but lost to Needham's Emily
Lipman in an intense 6-1,4-6,
6-3 match that helped edge
Needham to a2-3 victory over
the Raiders.
It was Barnstable 's only
loss of the season. The team
finishes with a stellar record
of 21-1.
"It reallywas athriller,"said
head coach Hedley Smith of
the match. "It really came
down to that third set."
Kate Donnelly also strug-
gled against Needham, as did
Chealsey Giatrelis. Donnelly
lost 6-1,6-0 while Giatrelis
went out with 6-2,6-2.
In doubles play, however,
the BHSteams shined,emerg-
ing victorious in straight sets.
Jess Francis and Madison
DeMello trumped Lauren
Richman and Sandra Hyams
with scores of 6-4, 6-4, while
the dynamic duo of Lauren
Donnelly and Kortney Kelley
trounced Needham's Jessye
Moss and Racheal Bergeron
6-3, 6-3.
Donnelly and Kelley will
take their show on the road
this weekend asthey face An-
doverinthe State Champion-
ships. "There were 275 teams
in the running," said Smith.
"Now it's down to four."
That four includes BHS,
something Smith is quite
proud of. "It is pretty awe-
some," he said. "That's kind
of taken the stingout oflosing
SERVING IT UP - The doubles
duo of Kortney Kelley (front)
and Lauren Donnelly defeated
Needham and are on their way
tc the State Championships
this weekend when they take on
Andover.
to Needham."
Although Smith feels that
Donnelly and Kelley face a
challenge in the champion-
ship, he has confidence in
their skills. "Whoever can
play their game will win it,"
he said.
Lookingback on the team's
successful season, Smith is
duly impressed. "If someone
had said to me at the begin-
ning of the season 'You're
going to go all the way to
the finals,' I would have said,
'You're kidding me,'" Smith
said,adding that after watch-
ing the girls practice and
develop over the season, he
wasn't surprised that they
made it as far as they did.
With the departure of se-
niors Lauren Donnelly, Jess
Whelan and Madison DeM-
ello the team will undergo a
restructuring next season,
but Smith feels they have
a promising future. "In the
next couple of years we'll get
back to where we are now,"he
said. "Our chance will come
in time."
Mixed bag for BHS
Edge Cape League
preseason squad
at Lowell Park
By David Curran
sports@barnstablepatriot.com
SALUTE - Members of the U.S. Military All-Stars baseball team join
CubScout Pack52alongthethird-base linewhileMaster Sgt. Christian
Fiore of Otis National Guard sings "God Bless America " during the
seventh-inning stretch of Sunday's Red White & Blue Tour exhibition
game between the U.S. Military All-Stars and the Cape Cod Baseball
League at Lowell Park in Cotuit.
KIDS' STUFF - Cpl.Tyler Maxon of the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S.
Military All-Stars baseball team gives baseball cards to young fans,
including Ryan Irwin, 6, of Osterville, during the team's exhibition
game against the Cape Cod Baseball League Sunday at Cotuit's
Lowell Park.
TRI, TRI AGAIN - After striking
out looking in his first at-bat as
a Cape Leaguer,former BHS star
Rich Tri of Centerville gets ready
to laydownwhatturned out to bea
picture-perfect buntsingleleading
off the seventh inningof Sunday's
exhibitionagainstthe U.S.Military
All-Stars at Cotuit's Lowell Park.
Tri is with the CCBL's Chatham As
on a temporary contract , hoping
to earn a place on the team for
the full season
The final score was 11-10,
but when Cub Scout Pack 52,
fined up along the third-base
line for the seventh-inning-
stretch rendition of "God
Bless America,"wasjoined by
members of the visitingteam,
salutingthe Stars and Stripes
together, that was what this
afternoon ofbaseballinCotuit
was really all about.
"We'rejust sohonored to be
able to host a game like this
with all that's going on and
to have the opportunity to
have these young men here ,"
Jim Higgins, chairman of the
Cape Cod Baseball League
committee that organized the
U.S. Military All-Stars' sec-
ond visit in two years to play
preseason exhibition baseball
on the Cape. "It'smuch more
than baseball."
"It'ssymbolic of what base-
ball has stood for, to me,
for probably 100 years, but
particularly in wartime,"said
Mike Roberts,third-year field
manager of the Cotuit Ket-
tleers, who had the honor of
skipperingthe Cape League's
preseason squad. "Our mili-
tary people are still protect-
ing our country and yet have
a great experience playing a
sport they love at the same
time."
An appreciative crowd of
more than 1,100 turned out
for the game, which became
the opening contest in the
Military All-Stars' second an-
nual Red White & Blue Tour
after games scheduled the
previous two days, in Boston
against a Yawkey League all-
star team and in Chatham
against the CCBL squad,were
rained out.
Marine Corps Cpl. Tyler
Maxon, who pitched aninning
and two-thirds for the Military
All-Stars , was deployed in
Iraq when the first Red White
and Blue Tour stopped in
Hyannis in 2005. He said he
remembered reading about
the tour and wishinghe could
be stateside to take part,just
as, he imagined, troops there
now probably feel.
"It was hot," he said of his
nine-month stint. "A lot of
goingout riding around in the
Humvee.It wasjust hot.There
for along time, not beingable
to see your families,not being
able to talk to your friends
-that was tough."
This year, after taking his
turn on the mound, he min-
gled withfans, givingpackets
of Military All-Stars baseball
cards to children and ac-
cepting well-wishes and ex-
pressions of gratitude from
adults.
Kettleers general manager
Bruce Murphy saidmanyfans
brought tangible expressions
of gratitude to be sent in care
packages to troops overseas.
Hundreds of dollars the event
raised will be used to supply
troops with QuikClot , a first-
aid product he said he was
surprised to learn is included
in the standard provisions of
only about one in 40 troops.
The league and the Kettleers
worked with Cape Cod Sup-
ports Our Soldiers on that
project ,he said, one of numer-
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